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Re: Cisco Update

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Johnstone)
Thu Jul 5 23:48:26 2012

In-Reply-To: <201207060101.q6611bIB086234@aurora.sol.net>
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 20:47:50 -0700
From: Jeff Johnstone <jj@diamondtech.ca>
To: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> wrote:

> > I see.
> >
> > Replace "local access" control with "let anyone on the internet
> reconfigure=
> >  the thing".  Whoever's idea it was should be p*ssed on, keelhauled,
> drawn =
> > and quartered, then burned at the stake.
>
>
> It'll get real interesting when Cisco's cloud database is breached and
> some weakness in the password encryption is discovered.
>
> ... JG
>

What encryption?  Web stuff was probably built by a consultant using an
open source database store :)

Jeff

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